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Self-cars of all time
On vehicles, передвигаемых without human hands , today, does not speak unless dumb. And, by the way, studies in этом direction continues over half a century. How it all began, why they came and what further a >? RoboHunter looked into the history of unmanned cars.
General Motors Firebird II
In the distant 50s automaker experts developed the first prototype of a futuristic intelligent cars. Thanks to titanium case, stylish design and a new car braking system caused quite a stir at the time. But even more amazing was the magnetic sensors that are integrated with the cables of the metal in the road transport and help to not get in an accident. Firebird had the opportunity to go off-line, and the speed and direction of motion control system with intelligence. In the future, were still trying to improve the car, but the mass production of the experiments have not ended.
Citroen DS
He became the first car, which was released on the road and could not move without the person behind the wheel (1960). "Smart" car getting through interaction with bells on road cables. Also, he could make a relatively smooth movements, avoiding difficult turns.
Chrysler Plymouth
The launch of this ambitious project produced in the seventies in the territory of University of Ohio (Columbus). The bumper cars were built conventional magnetic sensors.
For automatic control of the cabin got a computer, which took half the back seat. Generator, the power supply for the entire internal equipment was located on the car roof. Subsequently, the car was tested for 10 years on parking, but cars on real roads and has not appeared.
Mercedes VaMP and VITA-2
German Ernst Dikmannsu managed pioneer of creating a truly "smart" cars, which had an unprecedented stuffing.
Even in the eighties the inventor made a self-governing minivan Mercedes, whose weight at the expense of filling reached 5 tons. The project is interested in the group Daimler-Benz, which identified a number of investment to build two more "robot car", subsequently tested on the roads of Paris.
In the 95th government functions were one of the sedans Mercedes S-Class. We already had a car "computer eyes", the system reads the signals on the movement of other vehicles. Independently machine could overcome about 158 kilometers.
Robot truck and self-governing Car Mercedes-Benz F 015
At the beginning of 2014 one of the trucks a Mercedes with an automatic control system to travel by road in Germany, in order to verify the effectiveness of the system. Then the control system has been built in a conventional truck. Later, the company introduced a new type of truck - «Future Truck 2025 », with an updated automatic (or rather, semi-automatic) control:
In 2015, Mercedes introduced exhibition CES concept of self-directed auto Mercedes-Benz F 015 :
In San Francisco, a team of engineers tested this robotic car:
DARPA Grand Challenge
Until 2004, the development of self-cars has reached such a level that some of their representatives to participate in competitions. Winner DARPA Grand Challenge had to win 1 million. Dollars. If passed would be 228 km between California and Nevada in less than ten o'clock. But the prize has remained the founders of the competition, since none of the participants could not solve the problem - was not further 12 km.
Google Toyota Prius
The 2012th branch to присоединился Google , posting on the Internet presentation of unmanned Toyota Prius. In the same year the car was more than fifty thousand test kilometers:
A prototype of Google introduced its creation two years later.
The cabin may be two passengers, and is used to control a computer, with no steering wheel, pedals, throttle and brake. The machine can move at a maximum speed - 40 kilometers per hour:
Delphi Automotive
The robotic vehicle from the British-based Audi Q5 was able to make a journey of 5, 5 thous. Km from San Francisco to New York. To this it took about 9 days.
Volvo (2014)
The first automaker to speak on the issue of drones on the road in 2013. And plans for the future - removing about 1,000 prototypes.
In the first phase of the project Drive Me group presented a semi-autonomous vehicle, the route of which was 50 km away. At this stage, the company's engineers sought to find out how soon the car adapts to the speed limit, whether to follow in the general flow of how to react to sudden changes in the situation.
It should be noted that while not provided full autonomy of the machine, but our experts are going to get rid of human intervention.
Audi RS7
In the same year testing race cars that can drive without human intervention, took up German автопроизводитель Audi Group . The companies were able to achieve the accuracy of self-governing cars at speeds exceeding 300 km / h.
In October of the same year Audi RS7 drone came at the Hockenheimring race track.
BMW and Baidu
Two years later, two more well-known companies are going to present a joint prototype smart car. From the search engine you want to figure out how to solve the transport problem in the country of the Rising Sun, and BMW will introduce branded Internet services.
Many car companies, as you can see, are betting on the future, with independent robotic cars. I would like to see them again on the road something like the Lexus from the «Minority Report»
or Audi RSQ from the film "I, Robot»
Source: geektimes.ru/company/robohunter/blog/260216/
